My diseseased body makes me irritable

[g_the_curious]

I've a newfound respect for people in chronic pain and/or discomfort. And lest any of those people complain that their suffering is naught compared to mine--you're absolutely right. I've been sick for less than a week, and already I'm complaining

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[taphophile]

Gah, that sounds like a horrible sickness! There is an excellent nurse practitioner working on Mondays only at a doc clinic here in the neighborhood if you feel like you need it. She tries to treat the source of the problem rather than the bevy of symptoms, as well as covering any other things you mention. I highly recommend her. That means, of course, her name has slipped my mind so I'll send you her contact info if you want to go. My concern is that the crud in your ear and the ear's pain level point to a nasty infection.

This reminds me that I never got back with you on getting together. I'm so sorry, that's quite rude. Clearly you haven't felt up to it, so let's tentatively make it as soon as you aren't at death's door and potentially contagious.

Please don't compare your pain and determine it as "not as bad" as others. Everyone's discomfort perception is different, and seeing both sides of occasional incapacitating pain versus constant but varying levels of pain, I actually got used to hurting all the time, thus making it more

[hello_helloo]

Ear pain is one of the worst! I hope you get some relief soon.

Once you feel better, let me know if your up for another easy ride. I think I'm going to get a bike soon. I feel weird spending money in this economy, but I think I'd enjoy riding more if I had an easier, lighter ride that didn't sound like a dieing animal when I have to use the brakes:)

[g_the_curious]

Allot of people are refusing to spend money in this economy, which is tragic in many ways because that's what's keeping us from recovering. I think the lesson of frugality that American collectively needed to learn can be taken too far, however.

People (myself included) would lament their spending habits on things they did not need per se, things they didn't plan on getting (impulse buys), or things that were disproportionately expensive to their utility.

As such, the lesson isn't to stop spending, it's to spend wisely. To consider something before buying it.

It sounds like this is a case where spending money on a bike could more properly be described as an investment rather than a frivolous buy. Clearly you want to ride. If your bike is as bad off as you say, then a modest investment in a new one would go tremendously far. You wouldn't do DBA work on a substandard computer for example.

On the other hand, one lesson I've learned is that buying something better in the hopes that it will make you do something rarely works.

[thisoldanvil]

are people "refusing to spend money" or do they just have less to spend? will the banks and lending houses that have been "bailed out" lend those taxpayer-supplied dollars to jobs-creating firms? the answer is no because the rate of profit has been falling since the '70s, and investment was turned to paper values, which as we have seen, have collapsed.
and for crissakes, go see a doctor!

[g_the_curious]

Saw one, which reminds me, I need to take my meds. Totally forgot.

People like me are refusing to spend money. People like hello_hello. That's what I was getting at. I have a healthy income stream, and I'm stashing a huge chunk of it because I fear that I will be unemployed again. I'm not replacing my TV. My blown out speakers. Not upgrading anything. Not replacing my dying phone. The latter of which keeps people in your industry working if I'm not mistaken.

I agree with the paper value part. Never understood it. I do understand the tangible effects of the purchasing choices I am making, however, and how widespread they seem to be.